AMENDMENT 18 (1919)

SECTION 1. After one year from the ratification of this
article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from
the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof
for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have
concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the
legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States
by the Congress.

AMENDMENT 21 (1933)

SECTION 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the
Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. The transportation or importation into any
State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use
therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is
hereby prohibited.

SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by
conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the
States by the Congress.

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